Power Out Map
– 0% of Pike out 0 customers out in Pennsylvania

Power outage history

Pike County Pennsylvania

39hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

1st most of 67 in Pennsylvania 5.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 2, 2018 100% of customers out · 90% back in 3.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 39h / yr State average 6.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.9days Mar 5, 2018, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 57% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 7.5 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 19,414 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Pike's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pike, hours without power per customer

PikeUS median countyPennsylvania average
0 50 100 150 200 250 7.1 ’15 14 ’16 9.8 ’17 179 ’18 15 ’19 17 ’20 11 ’21 7.8 ’22 8.5 ’23 59 ’24 15 ’25 US 6.6 PA 6.0

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Mar 2, 2018 Winter storm 19,414 100% 3.4 d 3.8 d 1.6M
Mar 5, 2018 No storm report 19,414 100% 5.9 d 4.9 d 1.4M
Nov 21, 2024 Winter storm 17,453 90% 4.0 d 38 h 759k
May 15, 2018 Thunderstorms 17,383 90% 3.9 d 3.1 d 377k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 16,054 83% 33 h 17 h 125k
Dec 2, 2019 Winter storm 6,086 31% 2.3 d 23 h 120k
Jul 6, 2021 No storm report 8,379 43% 23 h 18 h 60k
Oct 31, 2019 No storm report 3,789 20% 40 h 27 h 47k
Apr 3, 2016 No storm report 4,284 22% 38 h 27 h 45k
Oct 31, 2025 No storm report 3,104 16% 28 h 18 h 40k
Mar 11, 2024 No storm report 2,398 12% 38 h 13 h 39k
Nov 20, 2016 No storm report 4,119 21% 26 h 48 min 38k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +32h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Pike from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 44%
  • No storm on record 43%
  • Thunderstorms 9.7%
  • Tropical storm 3.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pike

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Pennsylvania territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co Investor Owned 647 217 2.02 18.8 1.8M
PPL Electric Utilities Corp Investor Owned 198 116 0.97 18.6 1.3M
Pike County Light & Power Co Investor Owned 195 143 0.82 22.2 4.4k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Pennsylvania

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 19,414 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →